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Protect Ocean Wildlife and Keep Tuna Dolphin-Safe!
Target: Dr. William Hogarth, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, NMFS; Colin Powell, United States Secretary of StateSponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife
The Dolphin-Safe Tuna Program and Ocean Wildlife Are Under Attack
The Bush Administration is trying to weaken the definition of the dolphin-safe label on tuna cans and pouches despite broad bipartisan public support for the program. The proposed changes to this successful program would allow tuna caught using the harmful practice of chasing and setting nets on dolphins to be labeled "dolphin-safe.” This policy has the potential to devastate dolphin populations, especially three dolphin populations in the Eastern Pacific -- the northeastern offshore spotted, the eastern spinner, and the coastal spotted – which have all seen their numbers plummet as a result of dolphin-deadly fishing practices.
Other Marine Wildlife Is In Jeopardy! Scientists worldwide recognize that large-scale industrial fishing techniques -- such as purse-seining, longlining, and drift-netting -- are devastating our oceans and the countless wildlife species that live within them. Dolphins, endangered sea turtles, sharks, sea birds and other marine wildlife are all falling victim to the nets and lines of tuna fishermen and the pressure of overfishing, especially in the Pacific Ocean. (Visit savedolphins.org for more information)
Sea Turtles in Trouble: Sea turtles, abundant throughout the world's oceans for millennia, are being killed when they become entangled in fishing gear or caught as bycatch in fishing nets. All eight of the world's sea turtle species are now listed as threatened with extinction. Within the last decade, the Eastern Pacific populations of the critically endangered leatherback turtle have declined by 78%.
Sharks in Danger: Sharks, due to their low birth rate, slow maturation and growth patterns, and naturally small populations, are extremely vulnerable to pressures from fisheries and human exploitation. Pacific populations of Angel Sharks, Lemon Sharks, and Blue Sharks, to name a few, are all facing grave dangers from overfishing practices. (Visit savesharks.org for more information)
We need your help in convincing the Bush Administration to finally demonstrate leadership position on these issues at the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission and elsewhere. We cannot sit by passively as our dolphin-safe tuna label is rendered meaningless and our ocean resources are destroyed by overfishing. Sign Now! Once you have signed, tell your friends about this imminent threat to these magnificent marine mammals!
The Bush Administration is trying to weaken the definition of the dolphin-safe label on tuna cans and pouches despite broad bipartisan public support for the program. The proposed changes to this successful program would allow tuna caught using the harmful practice of chasing and setting nets on dolphins to be labeled "dolphin-safe.” This policy has the potential to devastate dolphin populations, especially three dolphin populations in the Eastern Pacific -- the northeastern offshore spotted, the eastern spinner, and the coastal spotted – which have all seen their numbers plummet as a result of dolphin-deadly fishing practices.
Other Marine Wildlife Is In Jeopardy! Scientists worldwide recognize that large-scale industrial fishing techniques -- such as purse-seining, longlining, and drift-netting -- are devastating our oceans and the countless wildlife species that live within them. Dolphins, endangered sea turtles, sharks, sea birds and other marine wildlife are all falling victim to the nets and lines of tuna fishermen and the pressure of overfishing, especially in the Pacific Ocean. (Visit savedolphins.org for more information)
Sea Turtles in Trouble: Sea turtles, abundant throughout the world's oceans for millennia, are being killed when they become entangled in fishing gear or caught as bycatch in fishing nets. All eight of the world's sea turtle species are now listed as threatened with extinction. Within the last decade, the Eastern Pacific populations of the critically endangered leatherback turtle have declined by 78%.
Sharks in Danger: Sharks, due to their low birth rate, slow maturation and growth patterns, and naturally small populations, are extremely vulnerable to pressures from fisheries and human exploitation. Pacific populations of Angel Sharks, Lemon Sharks, and Blue Sharks, to name a few, are all facing grave dangers from overfishing practices. (Visit savesharks.org for more information)
We need your help in convincing the Bush Administration to finally demonstrate leadership position on these issues at the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission and elsewhere. We cannot sit by passively as our dolphin-safe tuna label is rendered meaningless and our ocean resources are destroyed by overfishing. Sign Now! Once you have signed, tell your friends about this imminent threat to these magnificent marine mammals!
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3:38 am PST, Mar 19,
Name not displayed, Netherlands
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9:01 pm PST, Mar 18,
Name not displayed, Wisconsin
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6:20 pm PST, Mar 18,
Patricia Pliego, Mexico
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4:54 pm PST, Mar 18,
Frankie Evenson, United Kingdom
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2:03 pm PST, Mar 18,
Michael Geddes, Canada
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7:31 am PST, Mar 18,
Stephanie Lessard, New Hampshire
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5:32 am PST, Mar 18,
Jim Treacy, Australia
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5:02 am PST, Mar 18,
Natalie Beiner, Israel
there's absolutely no reason to believe evrything around us is there only to serve us and can be wiped away at our convenience. We are not more important than any other species on this planet and therefore must stop hurting everything around us and let wildlife exist in peace!
there's absolutely no reason to believe evrything around us is there only to serve us and can be wiped away at our convenience. We are not more important than any other species on this planet and therefore must stop hurting everything around us and let wildlife exist in peace!
we cause so much damage to every thing around us and will soon find ourselves on burned land with nothing living around us. This only hurts us in the end and so we must put an end to this behaviour!
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6:13 pm PST, Mar 17,
Name not displayed, Canada
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4:27 pm PST, Mar 17,
Wendy Hojohn, New York
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3:44 pm PST, Mar 17,
Monica Speck, Pennsylvania
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9:05 am PST, Mar 17,
Katie Chentorycki, Illinois
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4:11 pm PST, Mar 16,
Candice Rudolph, Israel
# 26,337:
2:53 pm PST, Mar 16,
Yusuf Saiedi, Germany
ladies and gentlemen, the preservation of ocean wildlife and the oceanic ecosystems is important because through the process of life in the ocean enormous amounts of information could be gathered about the land and the waters...
ladies and gentlemen, the preservation of ocean wildlife and the oceanic ecosystems is important because through the process of life in the ocean enormous amounts of information could be gathered about the land and the waters...
i read about coral desertification in australia, a nation that is supposed to be technologically advanced.. that makes humans look "not so smart" and careless..
# 26,336:
12:49 pm PST, Mar 16,
Asa Melin, Sweden
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12:02 pm PST, Mar 16,
Laurie Ware, Massachusetts
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9:42 am PST, Mar 16,
Victoria Bonsignore, Florida
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8:38 am PST, Mar 16,
Carolyn Marie Dimmick, Illinois
All the species of the world have something to offer if only we would let them live in harmony with us. We are devastating their homes to build ours and we think we are the only creature worth living on the Earth, but all the animals of the land, air and water were here before us. They deserve to live too! The ocean is teaming with beautiful life and we need to preserve those lives. God made all creatures
All the species of the world have something to offer if only we would let them live in harmony with us. We are devastating their homes to build ours and we think we are the only creature worth living on the Earth, but all the animals of the land, air and water were here before us. They deserve to live too! The ocean is teaming with beautiful life and we need to preserve those lives. God made all creatures
They are being overfished, polluted, and the lives of countless species are being decimated. We need to take care of our oceans and the creatures who live there. The oceans sustains our Earth. Without water the Earth would die
# 26,332:
12:51 am PST, Mar 16,
Dominic Paolantonio, Vermont
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11:35 pm PST, Mar 15,
Stephen Guo, China
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9:58 pm PST, Mar 15,
Sandra Lopez, California
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7:59 pm PST, Mar 15,
Meow Mie, Singapore
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7:55 pm PST, Mar 15,
Name not displayed, California
they are the most amazing resource of natural and self-protecting animal life. If man would quit destroying the natural existense of the life in the sea!!!
they are the most amazing resource of natural and self-protecting animal life. If man would quit destroying the natural existense of the life in the sea!!!
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4:46 pm PST, Mar 15,
Tanya Ray, Kentucky
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11:27 am PST, Mar 15,
Jade Skye, South Carolina
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11:09 am PST, Mar 15,
Anita Benko, Hungary
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6:16 am PST, Mar 15,
Tina Florell, Sweden
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5:12 am PST, Mar 15,
Michelle Bafik-vehslage, Texas
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4:23 am PST, Mar 15,
Tracy Slager, Indiana
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1:33 am PST, Mar 15,
Michael Salmon, New Zealand
Earth ecological Biodiversity keeps things in balance.
Earth ecological Biodiversity keeps things in balance.
The amount of Human depredation of ecological resources and animals is rapidly approaching a point zero
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10:28 pm PST, Mar 14,
Katt Evans, Oklahoma
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10:10 pm PST, Mar 14,
Nikki Lamarre, Canada
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10:08 pm PST, Mar 14,
Annette Preaux, Arizona
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9:39 pm PST, Mar 14,
Candice Olsen, Australia
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9:33 pm PST, Mar 14,
Susie Wallace, Michigan
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8:23 pm PST, Mar 14,
Lynette Allen, Arizona
once a species is extinct it can never come back and we lose more of our biodiversity.
once a species is extinct it can never come back and we lose more of our biodiversity.
they store most of the carbon-dioxide that isn't n the air.
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8:21 pm PST, Mar 14,
Jennie Boatman, Texas
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7:55 pm PST, Mar 14,
Lynne Stanford, Texas
I LOVE all animal on land in sea .
I LOVE all animal on land in sea .
we nshould not destory and hurt all of mother earth. I have asthma and more tree cut the harder my breathing. and more more polluntion makes it worst. little children and baby now have lung promblems. let me part of solving glombal wwarmning not making it worst
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7:14 pm PST, Mar 14,
Fay Kelley, Arizona
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5:34 pm PST, Mar 14,
Joyce Garber, California
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4:02 pm PST, Mar 14,
Karen Monz, Canada
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12:33 pm PST, Mar 14,
Steph Reed, Pennsylvania
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11:32 am PST, Mar 14,
Michael Chamberlain, Massachusetts
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9:10 am PST, Mar 14,
Jennifer Baker, Indiana
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8:49 am PST, Mar 14,
Barbara Huggins, Colorado
everyone thinks about power but they prefer not to think about the other side of that coin, responsibility. We have the power to do a great many things, but because we have that power we also have the attendant responsibilty to do the right thing with that power, and that means aking good care of the world we live in and everything in it not just ourselves and our egos.
everyone thinks about power but they prefer not to think about the other side of that coin, responsibility. We have the power to do a great many things, but because we have that power we also have the attendant responsibilty to do the right thing with that power, and that means aking good care of the world we live in and everything in it not just ourselves and our egos.
Withouth every natural part of this planet being whole and well the entire thing will break down and die and so wil we, and though we as a species if we can not or will not be more responsible should die the other aniamls and plants and the planet it'sself should not e sacrificed to our worthlessness if we continue to choose to be worthless.
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8:44 am PST, Mar 14,
Marc Gartmann, Netherlands
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8:40 am PST, Mar 14,
Janice Gilmore, California
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7:44 am PST, Mar 14,
Archie Logsdon, California
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7:33 am PST, Mar 14,
Nikki Boys, Australia
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7:29 am PST, Mar 14,
Txlady Hawk, Texas